You ask a good question,

Here is more of the context;

God said:

It is true that sometimes I come in and shake the bell for you and yet how wonderful when you stay My hand and say:

“God, My Father, My Mother, let me serve You. May I anticipate every act of Yours and serve You. You have served me so much, I want to serve You. My heart is full and wishes to express itself. Of course, I want to serve You.

“What would mean as much to You, God, as my ringing the bell of my own enlightenment? Of course, I recognize that enlightenment isn’t something that belongs to me. It belongs to You. Surely, I can help you out. I can anticipate Your wishes. I can appear and serve You a glass of water before You tell me. I can take a hint. I can take initiative. I can anticipate Your requests. Right now You request that I open my eyes and see myself in the light that You do. What does it take for me to become self-realized but to realize my Self? You are my Self waiting in the wings of this theater.

“You want me to step right up and claim my award.

“God, You are my award, only I have to stride across the stage and accept the award You have long held for me.

“Certainly, I can go right up to You and accept the award You have long desired me to have.

“It is Your happiness that I claim Your Light so that I can serve You with greater strength and greater Light. Above all, my desire is to serve You. May I return to You some of the favor You have given to me and filled me with?

“I shine in your bright light. This is enlightenment. I accept the light You have given me. I accept gladly the gifts You gave to me from the moment I was conceived. You are my Creator, and I accept the Badge of Honor You placed in my heart so long ago. You already anointed me, dear God. I am Your Anointed, and, in Your name, I accept.”

When I look at this long quotation after what you pointed out, I immediately think:

Who in his or her right mind would stop God's Hand from enlightening him or her?!!!

But then God is making the point that we don't have to wait for Him to come to us to annoint us. We can go right up to God.

I am sure I heard God say "stay My hand." If we should change it to the softer "take My hand," would we be undercutting the specific point God is making?

Luus, I'm thinking aloud, I am sure you realize. Okay, so I suppose it would be like this: God has a beautiful tray of food for us, and He is going to serve it to us. And then Santhan stays God's Hand and says: "Here, God, let me carry this tray for you."

I think we just have to go with "stay."

Beloved Luus, this brings up another question for me. Thinking in terms of posterity, I wonder if it's a good idea to think of a way behind the scenes to keep such good questions like yours here that come up organized somehow, like archives, so that in a thousand years, let's say, when someone asks the same question as you, there is at least a record of your question and an answer to discuss rather than nothing and just leave it up to a scholar. This way he would have a point of departure. Hmm, this is an idea that just occurred to me.

What do you think?

Love, Gloria

P.S. In rereading this Heavenletter, I added a question mark! I also took the liberty, in the first part of what is quoted above, to add the word God so the transition from God speaking to our speaking is very clear. Wanted you to know, dear angel.